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Archive for May, 2013

“If what you want is contentment, it is better and easier to change yourself and what you want than it is to change the world around you.”

— William B. Irvine

Improve Your Ability to Anticipate Crises
Most leaders, even highly skilled ones, aren’t great at detecting ambiguous threats on the periphery of their business. But to be successful, you need to pick up weak signals from both inside and outside the organization. To get better at this critical skill, talk to your customers, suppliers, and other partners to understand their challenges. Conduct market research and business simulations to understand competitors’ perspectives, gauge their likely reactions to new initiatives or products, and predict potential disruptive offerings. Look at a fast-growing rival and examine any actions it takes that puzzle you. List customers you have lost recently and try to figure out why. Attend conferences and events in other industries or functions. All of this will give you the information you need to sense opportunities and potential crises.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from “Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills” by Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Steve Krupp, and Samantha Howland.

Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.

How similar were the two positions of Winston Churchill on 13, May 1940 and of Imran Khan in May, 2013 when Churchill said his famous quote:-

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

We are almost in the same situation like the UK was when on 13 May, 1940 this speech was delivered by Winston Churchill.

[We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage waragainst a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”]

Winston Churchill – May 13, 1940

How similar we’re the two positions of Winston Churchill on 13, May 1940 and of Imran Khan in May, 2013.

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

We are almost in the same situation like the UK was when on 13 May, 1940 this speech was delivered by Churchill.

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”

Winston Churchill – May 13, 1940

A fit quote for all Pakistanis of the NAYA PAKISTAN.

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

If I am not wrong Yesterday PMLN announced shutting down of all political activities due to the accident caused to Imran Khan.
However, its leaders were addressing public meetings as usual?

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

“The fight isn’t over until you win.”

“The fight isn’t over until you win.”